Improvement in apparatus for elevating liquids by retained power



` i' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

RUF US PORTER, OF MELROSE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND II. T. LITCHFIELD,OF EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,226, dated September3, 1861.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUFUS POTER, of Melrose, in the county of Middlesexand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Apparatus forSupplying Dwelling-Houses with Water 5 and I hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, inwhich- Figure l is a side View in connection with a Vertical section ofa well and of a portion of a dwelling-house. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection of the pump. Fig. 3 represents a device by which a vibratorymotion of the pump is produced. Fig. et is a vertical section of theweight-box, and Fig. 5 is a pipe-cleaning faucet.

The nature of this invention consists in a combination of certainmechanism similar in principle to the movement-gear of a clock driven bya Weight or spring, and so arranged as to apply a contin nous force to asmall submerged force-pum p ready to operate the same whenever the waterwhich is elevated by the said pump is permitted to How, thus applyingthe power retained by the weight or spring to the purpose of producingatlow or stream of Water from a well whenever required Without the laborof working a hand-pump.

It also consists in a peculiar construction of the force-pump, as willbe hereinafter de 4scribed and represented. 1

The pump consists of a barrel A twelve inches long by two inches indiameter, and near the longitudinal center thereof are two valve-seats bc two inches apart, and between them is a double puppet-valve tl,whichin operation is seated alternately upon each of the valve-seats band c. Within each end of the band is a hollow piston C D, furnishedwith a single puppet-valve e, which becomes seated upon the centerwardend ot' the piston whenever the piston moves centerward. The twopiston-rodsfj1 are connected to two arms g g, which project from avertical pump -rod E, which extends upward lfrom the pump to a pointthree feet above the top of the well.

The barrel A is attached by metallic straps or otherwise to the side ofa vertical post F, into which the pump is partly embedded,and throughthe side of the pump, at the longitudinal center thereof, is an aperture72., and a corresponding aperture extends in continuation through thepost F, and into this aperture h is inserted one end of the pipe G,which conducts the water from the pump to the point where it isdischarged.

To the head of the pump-rod E is att-ached a catch-plate X, to the frontof which are attached two catches t' j, which are impinged uponalternately by the several teeth w of the vibrator H, which is mountedupon a horizontal shaft m, and in connection with a ratchet y and pawlz, whereby the vibratoris revolved in one direction by the shaft m,but,being free upon the shaft, remains stationary while the shaft isrevolved in the opposite direction.

Upon the left end of the shaftm is mounted a pinion I, which is drivenby agear-wheel J, which is mounted upon another parallel shaft n. Uponthis shaft is another pinion K,into which meshes another gear-wheel L,which is mounted upon a barrel-shaft M. To this barrel-shaft is attacheda rope or chain @which is coiled around the barrel and extends thenceupward over the pulleys q and r, thence downward under the pulley s andup to the beam N, which is supported by two posts P P. The pulley s isconnected to a weight-box WV, which is ordinarily a three-foot cube.(See Fig. Il.) The weight-box is usually filled with stones and sand,the weight of which is about four thousand pounds.

That portion of the conducting-pipe which descends into the well may befurnished with a faucet Z of peculiar construction, as representedsectionally in Fig. 5, for the purpose of discharging water from theupper portion of the pipe into the well to prevent its freezing in coldweather.

The plug Y of the faucet has two apertures a and b', so arrangedrelatively that while either is open the other is closed. From the rightend of the plug Y an arm c projects at an inclination of forty-tivedegrees, and from the end of the arm is suspended a weight d', whichordinarily holds the plug in such a position that water will escape fromthe upper pipe to the well fulfct the aperture a; but a wire c ascendsfrom the arm c', and being arranged above in the manner of a bell-wire,and extending to the vicinity of the draft or hydrant faucet, theposition of the plug Y may be instantly changed so as to close theaperture a and open the channel-aperture b', whereby the Water frombelow will rush up to the hydrant-faucet.

It may be observed that the vibrator H and catches j are of suchpeculiar form that the periphery of the vibrator Vserves as guide to thecatch-plate X, and also comes in collision vWith 'the rear ends of thecatches at such points as to detach the catches from the teeth at theproper points or stages.

To the left end of the shaft m is attached a crank 7a for the purpose ofoccasionally winding up the Weight WV.

' In the drawings, Fig. l, T represents aportion of the interior of akitchen; S, a sink; U, the hydrant-faucet, and V a basin.

An apparatus constructed in the above described improved manner has beenfound to be very eiiicient for the purpose for which it is intended.

From the above it will be readily seen that the pistons C D cannot moveWhile the discharge-faucet is closed; but as soon as the faucet isopened the great power stored up will operate upon the mechanismattached to such pistons and cause the discharge-tube to be keptconstantly full of Water.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

i. The combination of the pump A, the weight W, the pinions I K, thegears J L, and the discharging-pipe G, when the Whole are constructedand made to operate together substantially in manner as set forth.

2. The pump A, as constructed and made to operate substantially inmanneras specified.

RUFUS PORTER.

Witnesses:

C. H. HUDSON, J. W. RICHARDSON.

